Poverty is the wicked man's tempter, the good man's perdition, the proud man's curse, the melancholy man's halter.
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He who would keep himself to himself should imitate the dumb animals, and drink water.
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There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves, otherwise the knaves could not exist.
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That one vast thought of God which we call the world.
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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
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